At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.